Articles filed under Home & Garden
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Play with light to get the basement of your dreamsSep 08, 2012 5:00 am - It’s easy to find advice on decorating nearly every inch of your home. Kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, baths — even mudrooms and closets get attention. But the lowly b...
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Rearranging your accessoriesSep 08, 2012 5:00 am - Sometimes just rearranging the things we already own can make a big change in our homes. Let’s explore how to display accessories in ways that perhaps we didn’t think of...
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Vent boot can protect roof with damaged flashingSep 08, 2012 1:00 am - Q. I was looking at my roof and I noticed a dark streak where two roofs meet and form a valley. I had a contractor friend check the shingles and he said I had a couple o...
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Focal points enhance the beauty of a landscapeSep 08, 2012 1:00 am - Many landscapes are lovely in your neighborhood, but there is one that stands above the rest. Everything seems just right as you move through the space. A beckoning benc...
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Inspector scares buyers off with asbestos, lead assumptionsSep 07, 2012 5:55 am - Q. Our home was built in 1864 and recently fell out of escrow because of the home inspector. Our agent had been less than pleased with the buyer’s choice of inspector. S...
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Buyers often look for American-made home decorSep 07, 2012 1:00 am - When Rita Christian was a little girl, her father was such a proponent of American-made products that she remembers him checking labels on items before he bought them. H...
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Friends team up to transform weedy lot into organic gardenSep 05, 2012 9:38 am - PEORIA, Ill. — Until this year, Ryan Childers and Michael Hobin knew very little about gardening. “I’ve never even grown a flower plant,” said Hobin, 28, an apprentice e...
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Hallmark ornament signing Sept. 8 in Arlington Hts.Sep 04, 2012 11:18 am - Two Hallmark artists will sign ornaments Saturday, Sept. 8, at Amy’s Hallmark, 9 W. Rand Road in Arlington Heights, formerly known as Hallmark Creations. Hundreds of col...
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Indoor herb gardening can yield home remediesSep 03, 2012 7:12 am - What if you could soothe a sore throat or a headache with the snip of a scissors? Plant some herbs indoors now, before fall sets in, and you could have a winter’s worth ...
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Ask the plumber: ‘Touchless’ kitchen faucets add nice touchSep 02, 2012 5:02 am - Q. I don’t have a plumbing problem, but I do have a plumbing question. On a recent open-house tour with a friend, I noticed a kitchen sink with two faucets. One was a st...